Thursday, March 12, 2009

Meal Planning

This week's vegie box looks good. One unusual thing we got in it was a finger lime. It is the oddest looking thing. I had never tried one before but you break it open and pop out the little juice sacks. They taste so limey and sharp and made my mouth go a little numb. Apparently they go well in cocktails...

2 comments:

I looked, but I didn't see cocktails featuring in the menu..I get an enormous box of vegies from our food co-op each fortnight, and I am really learning to cook 'in season' and local from it, and am rising to the challenge of cooking strange vegetables - although not finger limes, we are not so tropical. My big challenge is to only cook using vegies from the co-op and the garden. I am slowly getting there, although it can be difficult to get the box and realise 'Aaargh! No potatoes.' We have just got through our first potato-less fortnight in years, and I don't think anyone else even noticed.

Hi Jo, I hear you about the potatoes! Potatoes and onions, they are the two things that there never seem to be enough of in the box. Sometimes I cheat by buying a couple of items at the farmers markets... It is a sweet feeling tho when you get to the end of the week and you've managed to use up everything in the box.